Bees with Fall Wildflowers

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Canon Elan II, Sigma 105 EX Macro, Fuji Superia 400

-- Larry Pizzi (pizzi@mindspring.com), September 23, 2000

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Larry, this shot needs to be sharper.Sometimes the scanning process softens a picture and you have to go back in and sharpen. Also the composition might have been better from another angle. The bloom at the left detracts from the interesting activities of the bees and the stem on the right interferes with the "thrust" of the petals toward the corner of the frame. The green leaf(?) is ill-defined and doesnt do anything to help. The way it's lined up, it doesn't allow the petals on that side to be defined. This may be more opinion than you wanted to hear and also, as usual, I may be full of xxxx. Good luck. Liked your mushroom shot.

-- Mike Green (greenplay@hotmail.com), September 30, 2000.

After the great sharpness of your last few shots, the softness here is little surprising. May be a scanning problem, or a bad print. The green leaf in the background is definitely out of the depth of field tho, and it does detract from the flower.

-- Christian Deichert (torgophile@aol.com), October 02, 2000.

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